Potato, Po-tah-to...

FaceBook is celebrating doppleganger week, and you are supposed to change your profile pic to someone that everybody says you look like. I asked my wife, son, and daughter who I look like, but they came up empty. I asked my 2-year-old grand daughter...big mistake. My profile pic is now Mr Potato Head! Funny how 2-year-old's don't yet have a feel for tact. Sometimes they can be far too honest. I remember once when my dad got stopped for speeding. I stuck my head out the window and told the trooper that my daddy had gone 100mph one time. I wasn't in the car, and I'm not even sure he ever drove that fast, but my little kid brain heard something like that somewhere, and I just offered up my dad on a silver platter. I remember a stern talking to, and I learned a very important lesson...you don't always have to tell everything you know.

Now, I don't go around withholding important information from people, but in the words of an old Hall & Oates tune 'Some things are better left unsaid.' Some folks in the public eye would do well to learn this lesson, too. We have freedom of speech in this country, and I am all for it. But, believe me, you may be as right as rain and fully within your rights to have a particular opinion, but there are some things that you just cannot say in certain situations. Remember Jimmy 'the Greek' Snyder? Al Campanis? Earl Butz? They all had opinions that they had every right to have, but if they had exercised a little discretion, they may have kept their jobs a bit longer. That lesson served me well over the years, a few stumbles notwithstanding. I've gotten my tail in a crack more than once for saying something that I prolly should have kept to myself, so I'm not living in a glass house and throwing stones. Had to clean up my share of messes, and I have the scars to prove it.

Just a word of advice, take it or leave it...watch what you say, you never know who may be listening.

Thanks for stopping by...RD